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The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.

A new framework describes how thought arises from the coordination of neural activity driven by oscillating electric fields — a.k.a. brain “waves” or “rhythms.”

Do we really need to be religious to run a society well?

Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.

In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.

Pain relievers like acetaminophen and ibuprofen are made with chemicals derived from oil. Scientists have shown how to make them from trees.

“Technology has always been co-opted for war, but truly intelligent AI, let alone a superintelligence, is a different beast entirely.”

While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.

Some constants, like the speed of light, exist with no underlying explanation. How many “fundamental constants” does our Universe require?

Like ultra-hardy plants that thrive in harsh conditions, businesses that see crises as opportunities are likely to win in the long run.

Our classical intuition is no good in a quantum Universe. To make sense of it, we need to learn, and apply, an entirely novel set of rules.

Former President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, unpacks the leadership strategy behind her success.

It depends on how you define it.

Aiming to unlock the secrets of his unconscious mind, Jung experimented with intensive daydreaming.

Big Think Business columnist Eric Markowitz prefaces his new series on long-term thinking with the experience that almost cut his life short.

“We’re acting more like fans of a football team going to a game than a banker carefully choosing investments.”

Evolution repeatedly hit upon this solution simply because it works.

Once activated, the CRISPR-Cas12a2 system goes on a rampage, chopping up DNA and RNA indiscriminately, causing cell death.

Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?

The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.

There’s an extra source of massive “stuff” in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?

Here’s what recent DESI measurements suggest — and why it’s too early to update conventional predictions about the Universe’s distant future.

We need a hypothesis that accounts for both the fine-tuning of physics for life but also the arbitrariness and gratuitous suffering we find in the world.

First derived by Emmy Noether, for every symmetry a theory possesses, there’s an associated conserved quantity. Here’s the profound link.

It’s good to be a wallflower. But sometimes, you need to show yourself off a bit.

The whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts; that’s a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

What made Leonardo da Vinci last wasn’t magic — it was process — and his study of fluids can help us win the long game.

A paradigm should be elastic enough to accommodate new data and broad enough to explain the world. For Rupert Sheldrake, ours does neither.

“I want to change the way we think about the past altogether,” says Dr. Betül Kaçar, an astrobiologist who studies the origin of life.